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13Re-thinking the Ethics of International Bioethics ConferencingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 24 (4): 55-57. 2024.Jecker and colleagues open (2024) a critical and needed dialogue about the ethics of international conferencing. In particular, they focus on proposing a set of principles in selecting the location...
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5When Tech Meets TraditionIn Edwardo Pérez & Timothy E. Brown (eds.), Black Panther and Philosophy, Wiley. 2022-01-11.Black Panther, even with the deep problems in how it represents Black American men, grapples with messy histories directly, in plain sight of white audiences. The motivations and struggles of the characters Shuri and Erik "Killmonger" Stevens, in particular, show us how Black Panther's blend of Africanfuturism and Afrofuturism is meant to teach us how our memories of the past must connect with our visions of the future. Black Panther presents a vision of a distinctly African future that not only…Read more
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3IntroductionIn Edwardo Pérez & Timothy E. Brown (eds.), Black Panther and Philosophy, Wiley. 2022-01-11.
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37Relational Autonomy and the Quantified RelationshipAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (2): 39-40. 2018.
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33Others' Contributions to an Individual's Narrative Identity MatterAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 8 (3): 176-178. 2017.
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15A Relational Take on Advisory Brain Implant SystemsAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 6 (4): 46-47. 2015.Gilbert (2015) warns us that advisory brain implant systems—neural implants that predict brain activity and give the user advice based on those predictions—could threaten the user's autonomy. If th...
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16Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research FindingsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 23 (6): 97-100. 2023.The COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate harm to racialized communities and increased public attention to the deaths of Black people at the hands of police (Elijah McClain, Breonna Taylor, George F...
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2Ambiguous Agency as a Frame on Neural Device User ExperienceAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (1): 50-52. 2023.Haeusermann et al. (2023) provide a valuable ethnographic window into how RNS device users understand themselves in relation to refractory epilepsy, the medications for it, and the use of the impla...
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16Black Panther and philosophy: what can Wakanda offer the world? (edited book)Wiley. 2022.When the character of Black Panther first appeared in Fantastic Four no. 52 in July 1966, legendary creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby didn't just write a story about another hero with extraordinary powers, they birthed the first Black superhero. For Lee, "it was a very normal thing," because "A good many of our people here in America are not white. You've got to recognize that and you've got to include them whatever you do." While it might've seemed normal to Lee, Black Panther's (and Wakanda's) …Read more
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22Deconstructing Structural Injustices in the Clinic, Classroom, and BoardroomAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (3): 29-32. 2022.Russell articulates compelling reasons that bioethicists and health care professionals should take individual responsibility for deconstructing structural injustices in healthcare through in...
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23Integrating Equity Work throughout BioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (1): 26-27. 2022.As members of a neuroethics research group funded by the NIH, we echo the call from Fabi and Goldberg for greater funding parity between the ethics of specialized medical technologies and br...
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48Mapping the Dimensions of AgencyAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 12 (2): 172-186. 2021.Neural devices have the capacity to enable users to regain abilities lost due to disease or injury – for instance, a deep brain stimulator (DBS) that allows a person with Parkinson’s disease to regain the ability to fluently perform movements or a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) that enables a person with spinal cord injury to control a robotic arm. While users recognize and appreciate the technologies’ capacity to maintain or restore their capabilities, the neuroethics literature is replete with…Read more
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23Neurotechnology ethics and relational agencyPhilosophy Compass 16 (4). 2021.Novel neurotechnologies, like deep brain stimulation and brain‐computer interface, offer great hope for treating, curing, and preventing disease, but raise important questions about effects these devices may have on human identity, authenticity, and autonomy. After briefly assessing recent narrative work in these areas, we show that agency is a phenomenon key to all three goods and highlight the ways in which neural devices can help to draw attention to the relational nature of our agency. Drawi…Read more
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26Building Intricate Partnerships with Neurotechnology: Deep Brain Stimulation and Relational AgencyInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 13 (1): 134-154. 2020.Deep Brain Stimulation is an FDA-approved treatment for the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, dystonia, and epilepsy—with experimental use for mood disorders. DBS systems consist of a signal generator, typically implanted in the user's chest, that sends impulses to electrodes implanted in select areas of the user's brain. These signals change the activity of areas of the brain associated with unwanted symptoms. Several research groups have begun trials to use DBS as a treatment …Read more
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44Keeping Disability in Mind: A Case Study in Implantable Brain–Computer Interface ResearchScience and Engineering Ethics 24 (2): 479-504. 2018.Brain–Computer Interface research is an interdisciplinary area of study within Neural Engineering. Recent interest in end-user perspectives has led to an intersection with user-centered design. The goal of user-centered design is to reduce the translational gap between researchers and potential end users. However, while qualitative studies have been conducted with end users of BCI technology, little is known about individual BCI researchers’ experience with and attitudes towards UCD. Given the s…Read more
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76Engineering the Brain: Ethical Issues and the Introduction of Neural DevicesHastings Center Report 45 (6): 26-35. 2015.Neural engineering technologies such as implanted deep brain stimulators and brain-computer interfaces represent exciting and potentially transformative tools for improving human health and well-being. Yet their current use and future prospects raise a variety of ethical and philosophical concerns. Devices that alter brain function invite us to think deeply about a range of ethical concerns—identity, normality, authority, responsibility, privacy, and justice. If a device is stimulating my brain …Read more
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